The findings, which appear today in the journal Science, have implications for many forms of social interaction, from disaster management to how many friends…
Currently, doctors treating patients with breast cancer make treatment decisions and predictions based largely on the location and size of the tumor and if the…
Consumer Web sites use rhetorical tactics to address injustice, identity, and agency – turning personal betrayal into a “cause” worthy of public attention and…
A new study from the September issue of the Journal of Consumer Research shows that consumers align material goods and services separately when considering…
The study was the first to investigate the association over time between glycosylated hemoglobin – a long-term measure of blood sugar – and the risk of…
By following more than 700 pairs of twins diagnosed with MS, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California found that…
Researchers found that the amount of nicotine contained in just one puff of a cigarette can occupy about 30 percent of the brain's most common type of nicotine…
Parkinson's disease is a debilitating neurological disease that affects about 1 million people in the United States. Little is known about its causes and hence…
“The common thinking in the past had been that Rett syndrome only affects girls, and that the genetic flaw would be so serious in boys that they would die…
Doctors have completed the first step of a unique medical research study, evaluating 1,001 individuals at risk of developing Huntington's disease who do not…
Do student athletes financially outperform their non-athlete counterparts after they graduate from college – or do the earnings of college athletes lag behind?
Every hurricane season, about 100 low-pressure weather disturbances whirl westward out of West Africa and over the Atlantic Ocean, but less than one-fifth of…
By examining more than 120,000 children under age 6 in Massachusetts over 22 years, a newly published study shows that young children–especially infants–are…
That is one of the implications of a new study published online August 8 in the journal Cell Metabolism. The paper describes a number of striking parallels…
The researchers conducted a randomized, controlled trial of 480 college-age women in the San Francisco Bay area and San Diego, Calif., who were identified in…
More than 20,000 children were treated in United States hospital emergency departments in 2005 for shopping cart-related injuries. According to a study…
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